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Java, Crypto and Speed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Thu Jun 22 14:40:18 2000

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Has anyone experimented with writing crypto code in Java using the 
BigInteger class? It's a nice package with plenty of neat functions, 
but I haven't played with it yet. Is it fast enough? I'm really 
curious about the speed.

-Peter
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